Word: mained
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Political enthusiasm reached its highest pitch last night when Senator Carter Glass of Virginia was nominated on the seventh ballot of the mock Democratic convention. A crowd of several hundred students thronged the main floor while the gallery was lined with professors and other interested spectators. Shouts, cries, cat-calls and cheers echoed from all parts of the New Lecture Hall when the different favorite sons were vote...
...that duty is. A first class character will strongly desire to do his duty, but with a second class brain it may lead to a bad mistake. I find that in American colleges and universities thinking too often appears as an incidental result of knowledge, rather than as the main and essential aim of education...
...Eight of the older battleships need to have the angles of fire of their main batteries increased, so that they may compete in range with British and Japanese vessels...
...horsepower can be made to lift 100 pounds; 35 horsepower will lift a weight for which an airplane like the De Havilland requires a 400 horsepower Liberty. Nor is a high degree of forward speed really hard to achieve. It is in coming down with engines stopped that the main difficulty lies. The airscrew must then act as a giant parachute. When one man sails down gently in a parachute its supporting area must be over 100 square feet. It is enormously difficult to provide a supporting area enough to prevent a 2,000 pound machine from crashing violently...
...entire New Lecture Hall will be used by the mock Democratic National Convention tomorrow and Wednesday night, with the delegates on the main floor, the campaign committees in the class rooms and the audience in the balcony...